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KBO encounters
xtruel
post Aug 2 2008, 12:53 PM
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Hi,

I’m regular follower of NH and I’m also interested in the 2nd leg of the mission, i.e the 2016+ KBOs encounters. Does anyone know when operations about this leg (starting with searching objects of interest with HST or some other earth-based means, I suppose) are expected to begin ?
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- xtruel   KBO encounters   Aug 2 2008, 12:53 PM
- - Nafnlaus   Now that there's a target, does anyone know if...   Aug 31 2015, 09:24 AM
- - nprev   Very much doubt that JWST will play a role anytime...   Aug 31 2015, 12:28 PM
- - ZLD   Seems that the decision to go with the target whic...   Aug 31 2015, 02:26 PM
|- - Holder of the Two Leashes   QUOTE (ZLD @ Aug 31 2015, 09:26 AM) Seems...   Aug 31 2015, 06:02 PM
|- - Nafnlaus   QUOTE (ZLD @ Aug 31 2015, 01:26 PM) Maybe...   Sep 1 2015, 11:56 PM
- - Explorer1   The new blog post by Emily does confirm that there...   Sep 2 2015, 01:37 AM
- - nprev   NH's instruments aren't capable of finding...   Sep 2 2015, 02:47 AM
|- - Nafnlaus   It's not *that* sparse, compared to space in g...   Sep 2 2015, 12:46 PM
|- - Herobrine   QUOTE (Nafnlaus @ Sep 2 2015, 08:46 AM) B...   Sep 2 2015, 03:23 PM
|- - Reed   QUOTE (Herobrine @ Sep 2 2015, 07:23 AM) ...   Sep 2 2015, 09:26 PM
|- - Nafnlaus   QUOTE (Reed @ Sep 2 2015, 08:26 PM) Anoth...   Sep 3 2015, 08:18 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (Nafnlaus @ Sep 3 2015, 09:18 PM) d...   Sep 3 2015, 08:58 PM
|- - Alan Stern   QUOTE (ngunn @ Sep 3 2015, 08:58 PM) That...   Sep 3 2015, 09:55 PM
||- - Nafnlaus   .   Sep 4 2015, 12:28 PM
|- - Nafnlaus   QUOTE (ngunn @ Sep 3 2015, 08:58 PM) That...   Sep 4 2015, 08:34 AM
- - climber   Good point   Sep 4 2015, 04:52 PM
- - alk3997   I was trying to figure out a good mathematical ans...   Sep 4 2015, 05:53 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (alk3997 @ Sep 4 2015, 06:53 PM) I ...   Sep 4 2015, 06:26 PM
- - Nafnlaus   Really, I find it mind boggling to think of just h...   Sep 4 2015, 11:05 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (Nafnlaus @ Sep 5 2015, 12:05 AM) i...   Sep 5 2015, 11:07 AM
|- - Nafnlaus   QUOTE (ngunn @ Sep 5 2015, 11:07 AM) If y...   Sep 5 2015, 03:04 PM
|- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (Nafnlaus @ Sep 5 2015, 03:04 PM) B...   Sep 5 2015, 03:41 PM
- - JGodbaz   "if you see a horizontal streak moving" ...   Sep 5 2015, 06:04 AM
|- - Nafnlaus   QUOTE (JGodbaz @ Sep 5 2015, 06:04 AM) ...   Sep 5 2015, 07:57 AM
|- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (Nafnlaus @ Sep 5 2015, 07:57 AM) B...   Sep 5 2015, 01:40 PM
||- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (HSchirmer @ Sep 5 2015, 02:40 PM) ...   Sep 6 2015, 03:17 AM
|- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (Nafnlaus @ Sep 5 2015, 07:57 AM) B...   Sep 8 2015, 03:04 AM
- - djellison   It's still not going to be as good as the best...   Sep 5 2015, 05:14 PM
|- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 5 2015, 05:14 PM) ...   Sep 5 2015, 06:31 PM
- - nprev   Agreed. I'm also certain that if NH was able t...   Sep 5 2015, 05:49 PM
- - Explorer1   Even so there's still the pipeline problem. Hu...   Sep 5 2015, 06:43 PM
|- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Sep 5 2015, 06:43 PM) ...   Sep 5 2015, 07:42 PM
- - nprev   Exactly. You have to consider the entire system (f...   Sep 5 2015, 09:13 PM
- - nprev   Hey, man...no need for that. Valid questions, good...   Sep 6 2015, 03:42 AM
- - alk3997   One item about streaks... Remember every CCD in d...   Sep 6 2015, 01:45 PM
|- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (alk3997 @ Sep 6 2015, 02:45 PM) As...   Sep 8 2015, 12:40 AM
||- - Nafnlaus   QUOTE (HSchirmer @ Sep 7 2015, 11:40 PM) ...   Sep 8 2015, 08:24 AM
||- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (Nafnlaus @ Sep 8 2015, 09:24 AM) M...   Sep 8 2015, 04:23 PM
|- - Y Bar Ranch   QUOTE (alk3997 @ Sep 6 2015, 08:45 AM) Fu...   Sep 8 2015, 01:29 PM
- - Nafnlaus   Again, I'm sort of afraid to write a reply out...   Sep 8 2015, 04:34 PM
- - abalone   Any news yet on when the first burn is due?   Oct 15 2015, 12:20 PM
|- - stfletch   QUOTE (abalone @ Oct 15 2015, 01:20 PM) A...   Oct 15 2015, 12:34 PM
|- - JRehling   Just food for thought, when distances of ~15 AU ar...   Oct 15 2015, 06:49 PM
|- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (JRehling @ Oct 15 2015, 06:49 PM) ...   Oct 20 2015, 12:28 PM
- - fredk   Why would the Milky Way be more of a problem for e...   Oct 20 2015, 03:01 PM
|- - john_s   One unique thing that New Horizons can do even for...   Oct 20 2015, 03:12 PM
- - hendric   Pluto is currently going through the center of the...   Oct 20 2015, 03:13 PM
|- - bkellysky   QUOTE (hendric @ Oct 20 2015, 10:13 AM) P...   Oct 23 2015, 01:48 AM
- - fredk   But KBO's will be distributed all around the e...   Oct 20 2015, 05:07 PM
- - pitcapuozzo   According to Alan Stern, today marks New Horizons...   Oct 22 2015, 05:33 PM
- - abalone   NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has carried out...   Oct 24 2015, 12:08 PM
- - Explorer1   Third maneuver completed; largest burn of the miss...   Oct 29 2015, 05:46 PM
- - tfisher   I think the New Horizons KBO search field overlaps...   Jan 28 2016, 03:38 AM
- - elakdawalla   An amusing story from today's SBAG meeting: Al...   Jan 28 2016, 05:43 AM
|- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 28 2016, 06:43 A...   Jan 28 2016, 02:25 PM
- - charborob   Or rather "Iacobus viridis".   Jan 28 2016, 03:29 PM
- - Explorer1   More info about the KBO encounter in the new PI Pe...   Apr 15 2016, 06:38 PM
- - jasedm   Thanks for the link Explorer1 This will be (prob...   Apr 15 2016, 08:38 PM
- - Explorer1   Wouldn't they do what the Cassini team did for...   Apr 15 2016, 09:30 PM
- - stevesliva   The pointing is simpler, I think. NH will point t...   Apr 15 2016, 09:44 PM
- - hendric   I thought it might be because of the lower orbital...   Apr 15 2016, 10:49 PM
- - Paolo   meanwhile, NH has been busy observing KBO 1994 JR1...   May 18 2016, 10:00 AM
|- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (Paolo @ May 18 2016, 11:00 AM) mea...   May 18 2016, 12:35 PM
- - Paolo   after I posted I noticed that the dot is moving in...   May 18 2016, 12:44 PM
|- - GS_Brazil   QUOTE (Paolo @ May 18 2016, 09:44 AM) aft...   May 19 2016, 01:53 PM
- - alan   Paper on arxiv: Red, Rough, Fast, and Perturbed: N...   May 19 2016, 12:43 AM
|- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (alan @ May 19 2016, 01:43 AM) Pape...   May 19 2016, 01:52 PM
|- - TheAnt   QUOTE (HSchirmer @ May 19 2016, 03:52 PM)...   May 20 2016, 08:21 PM
|- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (TheAnt @ May 20 2016, 08:21 PM) An...   May 21 2016, 03:08 AM
|- - Steve5304   QUOTE (HSchirmer @ May 21 2016, 03:08 AM)...   May 21 2016, 03:55 PM
|- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (Steve5304 @ May 21 2016, 04:55 PM)...   May 21 2016, 08:14 PM
|- - Gerald   QUOTE (HSchirmer @ May 21 2016, 10:14 PM)...   May 23 2016, 05:13 PM
- - dvandorn   Umm... USAF donated unflown optics from recon sate...   May 21 2016, 11:02 PM
|- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (dvandorn @ May 22 2016, 12:02 AM) ...   May 22 2016, 12:08 AM
|- - hendric   QUOTE As NRO telescopes, the optics were designed ...   May 23 2016, 03:40 PM
- - scalbers   Speaking of telescopes operating in synchrony I st...   May 21 2016, 11:47 PM
- - xflare   http://phys.org/news/2016-04-pluto-horizon...lt-jo...   Jul 5 2016, 06:15 PM
- - elakdawalla   I suspect that's a misunderstanding of the int...   Jul 5 2016, 06:25 PM
|- - Alan Stern   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jul 5 2016, 06:25 PM...   Jul 5 2016, 06:58 PM
- - TheAnt   Thank you for the clearification Alan. And yes ...   Jul 7 2016, 03:07 PM
- - Roby72   A new PI´s perspective about the KEM mission of NH   Jul 8 2016, 09:38 PM
- - Ron Hobbs   Exploring Pluto and a Billion Miles Beyond   Dec 23 2016, 04:36 AM
- - Explorer1   Another TCM completed! https://www.nasa.gov/fe...   Feb 1 2017, 08:51 PM
- - Explorer1   Halfway there: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-h...   Apr 4 2017, 04:18 AM
|- - Tom Womack   QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Apr 4 2017, 05:18 AM) ...   Apr 6 2017, 03:22 PM
|- - Alan Stern   The first of the three stellar occultation of MU69...   Jun 2 2017, 12:08 PM
|- - JRehling   Very exciting, Alan! That dense star field of ...   Jun 2 2017, 08:49 PM
- - Explorer1   Agreed. To see an outline of an object a year and ...   Jun 2 2017, 11:22 PM
- - stevesliva   Sounds like there were clear skies and data was ga...   Jun 7 2017, 08:33 PM
|- - JRehling   According to comments on Twitter, data collection ...   Jun 8 2017, 07:40 PM
- - stevesliva   There is an update about a July 10 occultation ove...   Jun 16 2017, 08:14 PM
- - Paolo   early results: no occultation detected, MU69 may b...   Jul 5 2017, 05:25 PM
- - Paolo   I re-read this and maybe I was wrong. what does it...   Jul 6 2017, 05:39 AM
- - Explorer1   They observed the star, but not the occultation, i...   Jul 6 2017, 05:53 AM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Among the possibilities I've read mentioned ar...   Jul 6 2017, 02:13 PM
|- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Jul 6 2017...   Jul 7 2017, 11:19 AM
- - bkellysky   My interpretation is that they did not see the obj...   Jul 7 2017, 03:23 AM
- - Explorer1   There was no occultation observed, it's pretty...   Jul 7 2017, 05:57 AM
- - Paolo   the orbit of MU69 appears to be well established, ...   Jul 7 2017, 11:35 AM
- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (Paolo @ Jul 7 2017, 12:35 PM) the ...   Jul 7 2017, 12:22 PM
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